The time has come for us to seize those opportunities.

We must also preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs.

Our job is to do more than lay out another road map; our job is to rebuild the road to real peace and lasting security throughout the region.

That effort begins with a clear and strong commitment to the security of Israel: our strongest ally in the region and its only established democracy.

It is far too dangerous to have nuclear weapons in the hands of a radical theocracy.

As the U.S. redeploys from Iraq, we can recapture lost influence in the Middle East.

I opposed this war from the beginning - in part because I believed that giving this President the open-ended authority to invade Iraq would lead to the open-ended occupation we find ourselves in today.

Peace with security. That is the Israeli people's overriding wish.

I think the entire failure, not just restricted to Walter Reed, but overall, is scandalous. The fact that we have got veterans who are homeless and going through Dumpsters is scandalous.

I thank you for the response. I hope you'll share what you have learned, with the Committee, when you learn it.

If we continue on the President's path, we face an extended period when the United States will have no human access to space.

I was alarmed at what the Appropriations Committee did, without our acquiescence, in cutting back on certain programs.

Thank you for tackling tough issues, like Hubble, and how you put 10 pounds of potatoes into a 5-pound sack.

I want to have the designation of the Space Station as the National Lab mean something.

I'm not worried about the Moon right now, either. I'm worried about replacing the Shuttle.

And there's no outside source that would probably consider the $350 million able to be recovered from the science?

This budget request, in the context of the FY 2007 Continuing Resolution, is not an adequate budget.

I can't see that there is one iota of difference in our goals for NASA.